In addition to the workshops there are services of psychology, physiotherapy, home visits and social work.
During the COVID-19 pandemicLuis Cárdenas, 72, learned to use a smartphone with which he gives his contact information when someone wants to buy the nuts he produces and sells. “I learned all this in the Experience Center of the Elderlythere in the valley of Los Chillos, where I live”, he says.
For Cárdenas, belonging to one of these groups of the Patronato San José is having the opportunity to feel that despite your age, “you can continue learning.”
He’s not the only one. In the experience program Elderly and in 60 and PiQuito there are 20,000 beneficiaries; of them, 12,877 registered in the workshops between January and February 2022.
Zaida Valarezo, head of the Unit of the Elderlysays that for this year they have 2,000 more quotas, so that the older adults access, not only the workshopsbut to this service that also has care in psychology, physiotherapy, home visits and social work.
Valarezo points out that these spaces allow improving the quality of life of the older adultswhich are usually a forgotten population and that require activities, since the sedentary lifestyle of the mind and body increases the risk of having diseases or cognitive deterioration.
registrations
The older adults can register by approaching the Experience centers of the Elderly, with a copy of the identity card, light form, vaccination card or certificate, family reference data, email and telephone number. (AVV)
WORKSHOPS FOR OLDER ADULTS
1. Crafts
2. Trades and enterprises
3. Cell phone fix
4. Fabric
5. Sewing
6. Physical activity
7. Dance
8. Music
9. Gastronomy
10. Pastry
11. Bakery
12. English
13. Play therapy
14. Orchards
15. Animal husbandry
16. Ballroom dancing
17. Chess
18. Occupational therapy
19. Yoga
20. Tai chi
21. Theater
22. Beauty
23. Woodworking
24. Performing arts
25. Digital Literacy
Experience Center for the Elderly (CEAM)
CEAM Calderon
Tila María Oe 8-330 and Panamericana Norte, 1 km before the Calderón overpass (diagonal to the Quifatex factory)
CEAM Eugenio Mirror
Bernardo de León y Carcelén No. 58-135. Vaca de Castro Extension (behind the Church of San Carlos, next to the UPC)
CEAM The Delight
José de Soto, between Av. de la Prensa and Piedras Negras (Diagonal al Condado Shopping)
CEAM Tumbaco
Av. Francisco de Orellana Oe5A 39 between Federico González Suárez and Rodrigo Núñez
CEAM Los Chillos
Gribaldo Miño and Ilaló Avenue, Hacienda San José, next to Los Chillos Zonal Administration
CEAM Manuela Saenz
García Moreno and Rafael Barahona (May 24 Boulevard)
CEAM Quitumbe
The Ecuadorian Avenue Oe6-21 and Ignacio Lecumberry
CEAM Eloy Alfaro
Citadel of El Ejército Stage No. 2 Av. Quitumbe Ñan and fourth transversal Diagonal to the EU Replica Mejía
CEAM Nanegalito
Calle Raúl Calderón S/N next to the Stadium.
